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- Have emulating atomic64 use arch_spin_locks instead of raw_spin_locks
The tracing ring buffer events have a small timestamp that holds the
delta between itself and the event before it. But this can be tricky
to update when interrupts come in. It originally just set the deltas
to zero for events that interrupted the adding of another event which
made all the events in the interrupt have the same timestamp as the
event it interrupted. This was not suitable for many tools, so it
was eventually fixed. But that fix required adding an atomic64 cmpxchg
on the timestamp in cases where an event was added while another
event was in the process of being added.
Originally, for 32 bit architectures, the manipulation of the 64 bit
timestamp was done by a structure that held multiple 32bit words to hold
parts of the timestamp and a counter. But as updates to the ring buffer
were done, maintaining this became too complex and was replaced by the
atomic64 generic operations which are now used by both 64bit and 32bit
architectures. Shortly after that, it was reported that riscv32 and
other 32 bit architectures that just used the generic atomic64 were
locking up. This was because the generic atomic64 operations defined in
lib/atomic64.c uses a raw_spin_lock() to emulate an atomic64 operation.
The problem here was that raw_spin_lock() can also be traced by the
function tracer (which is commonly used for debugging raw spin locks).
Since the function tracer uses the tracing ring buffer, which now is being
traced internally, this was triggering a recursion and setting off a
warning that the spin locks were recusing.
There's no reason for the code that emulates atomic64 operations to be
using raw_spin_locks which have a lot of debugging infrastructure attached
to them (depending on the config options). Instead it should be using
the arch_spin_lock() which does not have any infrastructure attached to
them and is used by low level infrastructure like RCU locks, lockdep
and of course tracing. Using arch_spin_lock()s fixes this issue.
- Do not trace in NMI if the architecture uses emulated atomic64 operations
Another issue with using the emulated atomic64 operations that uses
spin locks to emulate the atomic64 operations is that they cannot be
used in NMI context. As an NMI can trigger while holding the atomic64
spin locks it can try to take the same lock and cause a deadlock.
Have the ring buffer fail recording events if in NMI context and the
architecture uses the emulated atomic64 operations.
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Merge tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v6.14-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace
Pull trace fing buffer fix from Steven Rostedt:
"Fix atomic64 operations on some architectures for the tracing ring
buffer:
- Have emulating atomic64 use arch_spin_locks instead of
raw_spin_locks
The tracing ring buffer events have a small timestamp that holds
the delta between itself and the event before it. But this can be
tricky to update when interrupts come in. It originally just set
the deltas to zero for events that interrupted the adding of
another event which made all the events in the interrupt have the
same timestamp as the event it interrupted. This was not suitable
for many tools, so it was eventually fixed. But that fix required
adding an atomic64 cmpxchg on the timestamp in cases where an event
was added while another event was in the process of being added.
Originally, for 32 bit architectures, the manipulation of the 64
bit timestamp was done by a structure that held multiple 32bit
words to hold parts of the timestamp and a counter. But as updates
to the ring buffer were done, maintaining this became too complex
and was replaced by the atomic64 generic operations which are now
used by both 64bit and 32bit architectures. Shortly after that, it
was reported that riscv32 and other 32 bit architectures that just
used the generic atomic64 were locking up. This was because the
generic atomic64 operations defined in lib/atomic64.c uses a
raw_spin_lock() to emulate an atomic64 operation. The problem here
was that raw_spin_lock() can also be traced by the function tracer
(which is commonly used for debugging raw spin locks). Since the
function tracer uses the tracing ring buffer, which now is being
traced internally, this was triggering a recursion and setting off
a warning that the spin locks were recusing.
There's no reason for the code that emulates atomic64 operations to
be using raw_spin_locks which have a lot of debugging
infrastructure attached to them (depending on the config options).
Instead it should be using the arch_spin_lock() which does not have
any infrastructure attached to them and is used by low level
infrastructure like RCU locks, lockdep and of course tracing. Using
arch_spin_lock()s fixes this issue.
- Do not trace in NMI if the architecture uses emulated atomic64
operations
Another issue with using the emulated atomic64 operations that uses
spin locks to emulate the atomic64 operations is that they cannot
be used in NMI context. As an NMI can trigger while holding the
atomic64 spin locks it can try to take the same lock and cause a
deadlock.
Have the ring buffer fail recording events if in NMI context and
the architecture uses the emulated atomic64 operations"
* tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v6.14-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
atomic64: Use arch_spin_locks instead of raw_spin_locks
ring-buffer: Do not allow events in NMI with generic atomic64 cmpxchg()
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